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PARTING SHOTS
The Skyjacker
Who Vanished
into thin air
The country has a way of [adopting]
young, [deputy], [championing]
through the midst a ridge of the
Cascade Mountains in southwest
Washington. 'They tell us Cooper
bailed out and landed back of that
mountain. But who really knows?'
These thick[et] [timbered] woods
have become the graveyard for
secrets of lost hunters and strayed
children. Now, they also seem to
have swallowed up the secret of
'D. B. Cooper,' the first of the
parachuting hijackers and, [cur-]
rently, the only one not in cus-
tody. No tangible trace of him has
been found since he bailed out that
back door of a Northwest Orient
[727] jet [Thanksgiving Eve]. He was
dressed in a business suit, top coat
and brown oxfords; and, he had
$200,000 in ransom strapped to his
chest. This exploit has become a leg-
end in the Northwest. A [meeting]
[later] arrested Cooper [illegible]
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